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Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1858-05-04

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JF O. i ll V 'I W EU K m M f VOL IV. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 4, 1858. NO. 2 ' " "if I LOVE THE NPlUKCI-TiraE. BY MBS. BUM1NA A. PARKER. I lovb Hie fresh, the verdunt spring, When nature all in grandeur sings The love of God j Ttio spreading leaf, tho opening flower, Tim loosened fount, and pontle shower, Pioclnirn hi to good. I love to hear the wild birds, sing, As they soar and glance with lightsome wing O'er the green earth, Ah if in thought'ul joy their lays Were turned to speak their Milker's praise, For earth8 new birth. I love to sit 'neath the leafy trees, And listen as the w hispciiig breczo Stents softly by, And feel its warm breath fun my cheek To u happy glow, us it sweetly speaks Of summer nigh. I love to wander tiie brook beside, Where the dancing, bubbling waters glide Su merrily on, And watch the thousand insects guy, Rejoicing where tho sunbeams play The waves uton. I love to roam 'neath the wildwood shad.', And turn the leaves that long h ive laid Muldering there, And see the purple violet peep, With laughing eye, froi its wint'ry sleep, A thing so fair. I love to bury the tiny seed, And watch it spring to a little blade Of boefiil green ; Then put forth leaves and branching stems, With buds and blossoms, like clustering gums, Of rival sheen. And I love to think that thus we may Poor travelers of a stormy day From death's cool sleep, Awake to an eternal spring, Where llowers their rainbow colors fling, With odors sweet. Like birds we'll mount the heavenly air, Rejoicing in new beauties there Unceasingly ; Our eyes forever wandering o'er Bright fields and streams on Canan's shore, Unwcariedly. AUXOBIOGUAPIIY OF A LAW-YER.BY WILLIAM B. OLIVER. . I believe that I starto J in life under the auspices of my father's aunt Deborah, a maiden lady of 04, who, in place of the father and mother whom I never saw, alternately petted and scolded me as long as she was able. I escaped from both when I was eleven years old by running away; and although she sent ine innumeraoie messages, hcii .v.-my whereabouts, to return to her, and be sent to school and fitted for college, I undutilully refused to go near her again. I had "hired out" with a small fanner to do Lis ' chores" for my board and clothes, and I stayed there three years; at tho end of which time my roving propensities uioied me to run off from him. I had made all my nr-.rangemcnts, and even wus mounted on tlu topof the Reading stage, when w ho should come into tho tavern bul the farmer. '.Where are you going, buy?" he called out. in a hard and severe tone. "To Huston, sir." "To Boston !" ; I cannot describe the manner in which he said this, but it woke up all tho memories of laggings which left scars got, I have not time to tell you how, any more than the immortal Fusbos had. . He was a coarse, pru'ane man, and he hunched out into a strain ol ubuse which would have made my blood chill it I hud been afraid of him, and b ide mo get down instantly and go huuu. "Thank you, sir," I said, "I am engaged to somebody else." At this moment the stage started. lie ordered the driver to stop and let me down, bul lie drove on, and I am a' most ashamed to record that I mado a significant gesture with my thumb and linger upon my very decent Roman nose, and calling out "Good bye, sir you shall hear of mo some day," I went olF in the exultant triumph of freedom. I was delighted with the fine prospect which I enjoyed in my elevated seat. Tho driver was very kind to me, refusing to take my money for the whole journey, and offering to find me a stopping place in the city. At that time there was a very old house in Howard street, now demolished, In which a Jlr. Jones, kept boarders for a number of years. Here ho stopped the atage for me to yto get down. "What shall I do, driver?' said I. ''J.ust ring that bell, toy lad," he answered and somebody will come and let you in." I .looked up at the top of the door.' "I don't see any bell, sir," said I timidly. The man burst out in a loud laugh. "Pull that knob, greeny!" he said at last nd I stroighiway pulled it again and again; until Mr. Jowua queer looking old fellow, with one leg, and a dilapidated eye, came to the door, aod looked daggers out of the remaining orb of vision, upoa the luckless wight who had broken his wire "Let that youngster stay with you, and Ma'am Jones till I come torupper," said tho Still laughing driver; and I stayed. M.i'ain Jones was a lady that would have made a fine companion for Daniel Lambert. Sheltered beneath her capacious wing, I could bid defiance to little Mr. Jones, whodxred not attack anything whleh his wife might take a fancy for petting. The old lady liked me very WUflh; and this knowlodgo, together with the daily sight of my old friend, the driver; kept me contented and happy through' the winter I itourcd knit es and ferloroifd quite a seri ofsimular dignified labors every morning ; but when boys of my own age were round, I some times thought, while looking at their good and respectable clothing, that it would not have been a very bad plan for mo to have accepted aunt Deborah's offer of sending me lo college. An opportunity offering to go soa, I prepv red to go, despite the entreaties and tears of the fat landlady. When she found ine determined, (lie piovided me with everything needful for the voyage, hugged me to her capacious heart and bade me God speed Jones, who was so angry la-cause I stayed there, was .still more so when 1 went away; and in his wile's absence taunted mo with my new clothes, which he more than half suspected came from her, all hough they passed as the gift of the stage driver. The' servants all assembled to seo me go away, and their hearty "Good bye, Sam! A sale leluin to ym old fellow!" was piubtbly more sincere than nir.c lenthsofihe good-byes i hut have been spoken to me since that time. I .-.hull not say but very little about my sea life. It did not answer my expectations lit all. I never passed a day without intolerable sea sickness, and being a slight delicate hoy, the captain advised me as a friend to stay in futuie upon the land. Going on shore the mats stepped forward and shook my hand, saying: "Well. Sam, you have killed a sailor after all." I did not then know tho meaning of this phrase, but when I got back to the ol J house in Howard street, my Irieml tho driver, repeated it, and from him I got tho expla" nation of the term. I could nut go back to the kitchen to work again after my voyage, so I looked dilligently for some employment. An advertisement in the paper for a printer's boy caught my eye, and I applied and was received. Here I was quite happy. I made myself a favorito in the office, and fortunately succeeded in learning the business so that my services would command a fair remuneration. At twenty-one I married Susan Russell, the daughter of my employer. I am thus brief in recording this, because no alchemy whatever could convert l!ie old fashioned andmatter-of-fact liking for each other, and subse. quent union, in anything like romance. Tho whole might bo comprosed in a single sentence I liked her and married ber, when I found she also liked mc. My description of our new home would bo quite as brief. We took two rooms, furnished them comfortably, and Susan kept them shin, ing like silver tho whole year round. If I ev-er enjoyed truo, real, unremitted happiness, without care or anxiety, or fear for tho future, it was in those days. What peace wo enjoyed! Our two eldest children was born hero, and then our limits seemed too sma'l; but it was real pain to both of us to move from tho snug abode which had been tho scene of so many calm and peaceful hours. Wo removed to a cotta&e in tho suburbs of Boston; not those miniature cities which now rise up beside the venerable Tri-mountain. but a small and obscure village, since risen to i ho size and importance it deserves. About the time that we removed, and were quietly settled, a vei) important law case was on the docket, and when it came on, we were very busy printing the rcHrts'of the trial as it progressed. I became intensely absorbed in it; not so much from sympathy with tho par-ties concerned as from feeling, that, were I acquainted wiih the technicalities of the law, I could seize upon very many points of iuqior-tin Ci which I believed the prisoner's counsel had overlooked altogether. This idea grew stronger upon my mind. had access to law books liicli were in my employer's s itietum, and I pored over them sometimes all night lung. Mr. Hussell had been bred to the law, but had relinquished his profession for that of an. editor, some years before the birth of my wife, I fr inkly stated to him my wishes in regard to fitting myself for the bar. He first laughed at, then seriously triedto dissuade mo from attempting it Opposition only strengthened my pusposo, and I entored the office of an eminent lawyer, who over looked my deficiencies in some respects, in consideration, as he was pleased to term u, of the talent and acutnon which my replies to his questions displayed. I now wrote for the journal I had been accustomed to print, and with such secrecy that Mr. Russell did not find out who his new contributor was. Ho would often wondor, in my presence, who it could be, and ascribed to him a degree of talent and brilliancy of ex pression such as I hardly hoped to deserve. Ho often, too. imputed my articles to and , then the two leading writers of the day, and expressed his opinion that tboy would not remain incog., a great while. This flattery pleased me, but I did not allow my vanity to lead me into betraying myself. Through a thin! party, I received a larger compensation for my labors, certainly, than I should have done had my wise father-in-law mistiusted who was his correspondent. I studied hard, and had at length the inex pressible satisfaction of beirg admitted to the Suffolk bar. I took an office with another young lawyer, in order to reduce our expen, penscs, and waited anxiously for the first brief period that thouhUie suffered. Poor Susan! My heart aches at the remembrance of certain privations to which with angel sweetness, she submitted at this period, in order that 1 might appear respectable. My contributions to various literary journals barely gave us the means of suste nance; and I bad so nearly offended Mr. Kus- sell by slightiog bjs advice that I dared not apply to him for assistance. Ono day, in passing from our suburban res-idonco to the city, I mot my old landlady Mrs. Jones. She looked at me hard and I returned it.' There was no mistaking that good honest countenance and expressive form even when dressed as it was in the deepest mourning. A widow's ample veil hung over tho back of ber head and nearly swept the street. The recognition was mutual, and the old lady's raptures at finding me, were almost too strong for out door exhibition. Sue told me of poor Jones's death, and ol their removing to the country, when the old house in Howard street as loin down. "And now," she said plaintively, "I am alono in the world." "Come and live with me," were my first words, "l uu gave me a home when I was a lone child." I stopped, tor the thought pressed back up on me that I wus poor, aid unable even to maintain my own family. A strange smile flitted over the face of my friend, while she inquired my situ uion. I told hor, and des- criiied my wife and children She said: I will go to you. I can help your wife enough to pay lor my board." 1 was almost dismiyed at what I had done when I considered tho immense appetite which I had inconsiderately offered to supply and which I well romeinbered of old. Rut I clung to my bargain, and begel her to come immediately. "You will find us in rather close quarters," I said, "but you shall comj and bo welcome." We agreed that she should ha there that following Monday, and I went home to Susan whom I met with rather embarrassed air. She looked ut the matter more philosophical ly than I expected, and prepared her best chamber for Mrs. Jones' reception, heroically carrying in many little conveniences of which wo had no dupli catcs. My relation of Mrs. Jones' former kindness to mc, and my description of her present lone ly and widowed state, made Susan shod tears. Sho promised to do everything in her power for the forlorn woman whom she thought would now bo thrown upon me for mainten ance and upon herself for companionship. Mrs. Jonss arrived on Monday morning, carpet-bag in hand, and followed by a handcart, bearing her old fashioned and somewhat dilapidated hair trunk. We received her kindly, and she seemed pleased and happy when she sat down to Susan's simplo but ex cellent dinner. The children were attentive, and kept passing the food near to the new guest. A fortnight passed away, and wo began to feel that we could scarcely do without Mrs, Jones. She was invaluablo as an assistant to Susan, and in marketing for us, her services were beyond all praise. Wo gave her our slender purse every morning, as she thought she could do better with it than we could; and it was perfectly amazing to see the loads of provisions and the superior quality of the same which sho obtained. Susan and I b.'gun to think that wo had been grievously cheated in our former purchases. S-, when our wardrobe imperatively ca'.ied for additions, Mrs. Jones would go out with the money for l sixpenny print, ami return with something really In.n dsoine and valuable for my wile, and a nice remnant for little Kitty, airt then slu would sit down and in ike tiiein both up with all the skill of an experienced munlo.uu iker. Sisun Inn Jed me sum. bills, one day, that she said were left there by a collector, including one for our rent, and one for the last suit ol clothes which I had been unwillingly foictd to buy in oidor to keep up a respectable op-pjurauce. My countenance fell some degiiees 1 lane, tor 1 bad no money to pay them. Mrs. Jones was bustling round the dinner table, and she said, rather sadly, that she lelt that she onjlit not to bj living upon us, and perhaps she bad butler go away. "Never, my good friend!" said I, and "never!" echoed Susy. I assured her that I would not listen to her leaving us that I trusted very soon to get business, and that come what would she should share our bAt loaf. The good old soul hugged us both atjfyce, and then settling her cap and wiping her eyes, she went quietly back to her work. After dinner, sho went out, but we reiterated the injunction that she should not seek another home as long as she could put up with ours. I called round in the evening at tho various places from whence I had received the bills. To my utter surprise the answer was that they had all been settled, I inquired by whom, but no one could recollect. They were all cancelled on tho various books. I was thoroughly amazed, for I knew no one bul Mr. Russell who could do it for mo, and hardly believed it of him. Susy was as surprised as myself, but she lather inclined to the belief that it was her fattier, lo I quietly let her indulge in her pleasant belief. We got through the summer, but the winter was coming on, and I actually trembled at its approach. Industrious as I was prudent as Susy has ever been we could not hope to go through tho cold season without both suffering and toil, and with debt superadded. I had been at the office all day, on one I gloomy day in November, anxiously debating whethorl should not go back to printing again. I considered all the whys and wherefores, counted the costs again and again, and by tho most careful arithmetic, I could not find that the change would benefit me a single sou. I was toiling anremittingly now, and I should have to do so if I returned to priming, and with scarcely so much success as now. I became heartily discouraged at the prospect before me. Had I been alone in the world I could patiently hare betne it. Suffering and privation brought no terrors to me individually, but the thought of those who were dear to me at home unmanned me. And the darker the prospect, the more I shrunk from allowing Mrs. Jones to feel that she was a burden upon us. No come what might, the good old soul should not be removed from the circle in which she teemed to have placed all her happiness. Sho should live with us as long as sho lived at all, and if we were reduced to beggary, why, wo would beg for ber loo. I started up and paced the office with nn impatient step. It may seem strange that a strong, healthy man should be so powerless as I was lo procure a living; but so it was. It was growing d irk, and I lelt it was near uiy time to go home. 1 had intended sending some fuel to my home, but I was disappointed iu some money that acertuin publish er of a daily pajier wus owing me, and I now dreaded that there was a darkness on the hearth at homo. I was just locking up, when a boy came up to mo with a folded paper. I read it under the lump post. It run . thus: 'Come to No. , Treiiiont Road, at six o'clock. I saw no alternative but to do as I was ask ed. The boy was gone, so I could make no excuse; and I walked over ibe damp leaves that lay crushed upon the sidewalk, which tho November blast had shaken that very hour from the trees. I went over tho ground rapidly, for I wanted to learn the errand and be away. I rang at tho number designated. It was a good brick house, with substantial granite steps, a well-lighted vestibule with glass loors, and I could seo that the wholo front was well supplied with gas. I heard little feot scampering through the hall, but as the doors were of ground glass I could seo noth ing. A servant came to the door, and waited on mo to a handsome drawing-room, with plain but good furniture I waited in curious spec ulation for some minutes. Thero had beon no plate on tho door, so I could not even tell the name of tho person wishing to seo me . I was standing beforo tho chimney-piece ex amining a picture, when a little child ran into the room. It was so like little Kilty that I would have called her so, had not tho pretty embroidered robe and silk apron looked so dif ferent from our children's plain clothes. Rut another little head was peeping in at the open door, and that was like little Charley, only (or tho scarlet frock and neat gaiters; and then tho two mado a long rush across tho floor and ran into my arms, while slowly and majestically, sweeping along in her ample crapes and bombazines, came portly Mrs. Jones, and be hind her, Susy smiling and blushing like the dawn. I think I had a womanly feeling come upon me just then. I felt a sort of faintness, and I passed my hand across my eyes to be sure that I was awake. Susy laid her band on my shoulder. 'You owe it to our kind friend here,' she whispered. 'She has been trying you deep-ly.''Trying mc?' I said aloud. 'Yes, my good friend,' said Mrs. Jones herself, 'I was rich, and had no one about mc but selfish and interested people who all wanted tny money. I have long owned this house, and lived in it when I met you first; but a thought suggested by your invitation to go to you, induced me to try whether you would keep me if I had hapnened to be poor, and I am abundantly satisfied with the result. We made money at tho old house in Howard St., which no ono but ourselves ever knew of, and I always intended to find you out and make you my heir. I had, however, rather that you would enjoy my property while I can have the pleasure of seeing y.iu; so I invite you to return my visit. You will find a handsome office, well lilted up for you in Court street, when you go down town to-morrow morning The boy who will wait on you has the key of the door, but here are the keys of the desk and library.' I declare to you, reader, tho generosity of this woman unmar.ned me more than the disconsolate thoughts which haunted mo the whole afternoon. It seemed too good to bo-licve, and when we walked out to tho dining-room, and sat down to a supper at which no expense was spared, I could only look from one to the other and wonder if I was in a dream. I took possession of my grand office the next day. Briefs poured in apon mc; for who will not require the services of a rich lawyer, and who wanls those of a poor one? I rose rapidly, and am still standing in high places. I speak it with reverence, I owe it all to a woman.Wo bought the cottage with its little gar-don, and wo go there in summer and play poverty ngain for a few of the hottest weeks. Wo have four children now, and Mrs. Jones pets tbcm all. She is now trying to have mc seek out my old Aunt Deborah, and perhaps I will. The old farmer, too, I intend now that ho shall hear from me.' Fdee Soil Victoihks is Missouri. We have already recorded tho triumph of freo labor and free soil in the municipal elections in in St. Louis and Jefferson City. Other important points in Missouri have felt the quickening influence, and Boonvillo and Kansas City also stand wan si. iiouis on me lanor and immigration question. In Boonvillo, Mr. McDearmon has been chosen Mayor. He was the candidate for Auditor on the Benton ticket two years ago, and is a staunch advocate of free labor. In Kansas City, Mr. Payne, a free Democrat, and opposed to Lecompton and all other slavery swindles, is chosen Mayor, also, by a handsome majority. Wootter Republican.(r Mr. Chicken has been sent as U. S. CodsuI to Acopulca lie should have had the consulate to Sbaogahi. , Fruui tli. Aiilitiiliula Ohio Sentinel. LETTElt i'HOTI HON. J. It. GIO- PROGRESS OF TIIE CAUSE OP FREEDOM IN" NEW HAMPSHIRE. Washington, March 10. To (lit rewlert of (Ik Sentintl : It were useless to speculate upon the prospect of admitting Kansas under tho Lecor.iplon fraud. A few days will tell tho story. In the meantime, we murk the onward progress of our cause in New Hampshire. The election of lust week has demonstrated the teruiunent Republican aconduiicy in that old commonwealth. In no part of the Union has the present revolution been more inuiked. 1 have bad reason lor observing it with intense interest. ' During my early service in Congress, he representatives of that Slate were regarded as the most servile of Northern flunkeys. They appeared to glory in their political shame. They were never so happy as when stooping down to unloose the lalchet of some slaveholders shoe. I shall never forget their votes upon a bill to pay lor slaves stolen by Ihu followeis of Gen. Jackson's camp, when he invaded Florida, in 181 1. To moi.1 Northern men the idea of inking money from the pockels of their constituents to pay for human flesh, stolen by oouinern uesperuuoes, was regarded as insult-ling. I led oil' iu the a guuient against the bill, and was lollowed by two or three slaveholders in favor of it, when Mr. Adams clos ed l lie debate iu a must able and lucid expose oi us true cuaruclcr. 1'ickens and Camp. Iiell.of South Carolina, and all the more respectable slaveholders, voted against the bill ; but the New Hampshire delegation, and perhaps a dozen other doughfaces, and some of the more obscure slaveholders, in all thirty-two, stood up recklessly lo the work, and voted for the bill, appearing to regard it a privilege to tax their constituents to pay for slaves stolen in a Spanish Province thirty years previously.I need not refer to the fact that one of New Hampshire's most distinguished sons of that day.won forhimselfan immorality ofinfumy by presenting certain propositions, which have lor twenty years been characterized as "Alb-erton's gag resolutions." He actually be-camo popular in his State, and was elected to tho Senate, on account of his efforts to suppress the freedom of debate which the Constitution had clearly guaranteed to every member. It was well understood at the time, that he acted as the mere instrument of Slaveholders : that his resolutions had been drawn by Mr. Calhoun ; yet while acting as tho slave of the South, he mado a speech which will long constitute a monument in commemoration of the stupidity, the arrogance, tho servility of New Hampshire Democracy of mat day. Ainerton has gone to his final account, but his base servility ought not to be soon forgotlcn. It should be kept in remembrance until ourcountry shall be fully redeemed from that servile depravity, of which ho was a most perlect mamleslution. When, in 181'J, I was arraigned before the IIouso of Representatives, for denying tho right of Congress to make war with'ttngland in order to sustain a coinuierco in men and women upon our Southern coast; to compel the Democrats of New Hampshire to die on the battle field, in. order that Southern Pirates mixht continue their vocation of buying and selling better men than those who then represented the Old Granite State in Cungrcsr.; there was a great indignation manifested by ihe doughfaces, cgainst me. As I entered tho Capitol on the morning of the second day ol my trial, 1 met a distinguished member of the New Hampshire delegation; who, if he should read this article, will recollect the remarkable emphasis with which be declared that, if he "had the power ho would li wij me and every otliet niuiiuito uttered ihedodrtnrs to xohkh I held." 1 left him with a perfect conviction of the total depravity of New Hampshire Democracy. The entire delegation from that State voted lor tny censure, in consequence of my having declared them so elevated as to be unwilling to die for the maintenance of u practical commerce in mankind. In justice to itiem , 1 feel constrained to say that 1 think they were sincere.if a certain honest and honorable slaveholder, who represented ono oi the Districts of Georgia in the Congress, be yet living, and recollect the events of that day, lie mihl tell how a distinguished member from New Hampshue, and a distinguished Democratic memlierfioiii my own State, conspired to re- j move me fioiu the post of Chairman of the Committee on Claims, in Consequence of opinions which I held in regard to Slavery. I wus generously informed that I might avoid the mortification ol a removal, by resigning my position and asking tho Committee to appoint another man. This self stultification I declined, and the day for removal was set. I was ut the committee room in the morning, promptly at the hour of meeting. I was met by a majority of the Committee, and we proceeded lo the ordinary business before us; but neither my democratic friends from New Hampshire, nor my colleague f rom Ohio, wus there. It was whispered to me that they had given up ihe idea of removing me, in consequence of the slaveholders of the Comiuittoo having declined to act with the doughluces for tho accomplishment of such an object. I shall not soon forget tho dawning of the first moral improvement in New Hampshire politics. Our home squadron had been organized principally for the assistance and protection of the coast-wise slave trade. And when slaves from Florida had attempted to cross over to the Bahnma Islands, the Homo Squadron furnished men and craft to pursuo and bring them back. While considering the bill makingappropriations for that service, I spoke of the management of the Home Squadron with some disgust and contempt. Mr. Adams followed me in smoother language, moro mature thought and strongerargument. At this juncture, John P. Hale, a democrat from New Hampshire, obtained the floor. I knew him, but as he was a delegate from that State, I bad desired no acquaintance with bim. Yet to my perfect astonishment he spoke boldly and sensibly, lie appeared to pour out hii honest sentiments wilhout the fear of democracy before his eyes. When he closed, Mr. Adams spoke to me of the effort as very creditable to a young member. I answered that such sentiments, if maintained by one man of such ability, could regenerate New Uumpshire; to which he replied, with a smilo of wonder at my verdancy, saying "that would he a great work." But that work, great as1 it has been, and "it is truly wondrous in our eyes," has been con-lummuted.- When Mr. Hale was driven from Congress by his democaatlo friends, for his opposition to the annexation of Texas, he went to work for the regeneration of his Stato. He was joined by other gallant spirits who, with him.exhib-ted true moral heroism: long and ably did thoy toil in the cam. of Frwdoca, The flrs:i fruit of their efforts was the election of Mr Tuck, from the district which Hale had formerly represented. Mr. Tuck was a true man, Side by side with Palfrey and Allen, and Wilrnotand Root, and lhnkee and Julien, he louirht many a bard battle; and, like his asso ciates, ably maintained his principles and in tegrity. 1 heir names are ull dear lo my heart. 1 love the men. I resiiect and honor their ability, their unyielding firmness, their self- sucrihcc, tlieir devotion lo liuinnu rights. The reformation of tho S'nte continued steadily to progress until the Legislature be came republican, and Hale, who hod been driven It oiu the lloue of Representatives by the Democracy, was returned to the Senate. That day constituted an era in the life of New Hampshire's shleM Slutes an. lie soon stood forth a leader of Freedom's hosts, iu the taiiule and in the auIioq. The people of the Western Reserve will not soon forget his visit to Ohio, iu 1852; nor will they soon forget his noble bearing, his eloquence, his devotion to the cause oi lilwity. He had been selected as the national standard liearer of Freedom's hosts. From youlh Franklin Pierce had been his competitor. and in some cases his persecutor. When Hale came out for Freedom, Pierce endeavored to break him down, to disgrace him. Pierce was the democratic cnndilmu for the Presi dency, with a moral certainty of an election. hale saw clearly that I teico would succeed unless there werea perfect union ol'ull the op posing parlies. Ueprelened such a union lo the success ct Pierce mid ttiereloie declined the nomination. But the Convention ut Pitts burg showed lo the country, tiiat the lovers of liberty would no longer join in the support of any man who wus not uM iiIy commuted to the L'teut cause. In obedience to tho request of that Convention he reconsidered that sub ject became our candidate; uud though not wealthy, he traversed Uluo nnd most ol our Western States ulhis own expense, bearinir aloft our glorious banner und adding strength to our cause. The people of Ashtabula County will long remember the day when ho spoke to the thou sand who assembled ut Orwell. He had spo ken at Warren fiom 10 o'clock A. M, until half past twelve; then rode twenty miles; and for three hours our people appeared spell-bound by the glorious truths which he uttered. "To tho luborers of John P. Halo, inoro than to those of any other man, are tho people of New Hnnishiro indebted for their high po litical position. A full delegation of Republicans now represent the Old Grat'iic State in the most numerous br anch of Congress. No firmer, truer, or abler men now hold seats in this body, than Tappun. Craginand Pike. When I contrast them with liurke, Alherlon and Shaw, who sat here twenty years since, 1 feel overwhelmed with tho change. Yet tho change of this body is not more striking than it is in the Senate. Hale and Clark now occupy tho seats filled by Hubbard and Pierce twenty years since. Mr. Crittenden, of Kentucky, is now tho only memlier of that body who held a seat in 1Hu8. He, and he alone, can sieak of tho great chango from actual association. But tho recent election turnishes the most indubitable evidence that New lliimshire is fully regenerated permanently disenthralled; und I trust we may soon make llio same declaration ol every other free State. , G- CoL. Benton's Will. Col. Benton, like many of the most distinguished men of the nation, died poor. His lung and laborious public and private labors fuiled to secure him the wealth so ollen acquired by men uf very moderate talents. Speaking of Col. Benton's property a Washington correspondent says: "I learn that, although Col. Benton went through the usual formalities of inakinga w ill ho, nevertheless died very poor. The creditors of his estate are not likely, however, to press their claims unpleasantly, and, if a project on foot in reference to a certain disposi-.liun of his latest liieiury luliois is successfully curried out, hi- debts will probably bo paid in lull. Every one who bud business dealings with him speaks in the strongest terms of his Spartan sense uf honor and faithfulness to his engagements, and one secret of his late indefatigable labors is the fact of his extreme anxiety to cancel every pecuniary obligation before his decease." AuoustiseanuFlavbi. ON INTEMI'KRASCK. There is no belter or more foreib'o description of intemperance, than that given by St. Augustine, who calls it, " A distemper of the bead ; a subversion of the senses ; a tempest in the tongue ; a storm iu the body ; a snip-wreck of virtue ; Ibe loss of time ; a will'ull-ful madness ; a pleasant devil ; a sugured poison ; a sweet sin, which he that has it, has not himself ; and be that commits it, doth not only commit sin, but be himself is altogether sin." ' Intemperance has lieen aptly called," saith Flavel, " the devil's brid. by which he turn-eth sinners which way lie pleases ; he that is overcome by it, can overuuma no other sin." Among the heathen he was accounted tho best man that spent more oil iu the lamp than wine in the bottle. On Saturday last, when Conductor Tom Clilford was on his way from Syracuse to Buffalo, he found on leaving Syracuse that two scats in the 'ar were closely filled by a woman and six children. The lady produced but ono ticket, and assured tho conductor that all her little family were under six years of age, and wero iherefore not cbargcnble with lare by the rules of the Company. On a close inspection of tho little boys and girls, he bo-came convinced that the eldest could not be seven years old, anl so lot them pass for lap passengers. The parent was a Yankee lady bound for Illinois. Tub Deficiency Bill as Amenpep is tub Senate Defeated in tub House. Our head line givesexpressioiiito an event of much importance which took place yestorday. The House some timo ago, alter a period of severe travail, passed the Deficiency Bill. The Bill was amended in the Senate. Yesterday the House refused to accept the amendments of the So nato. Here is a chance lor another Committee of Conference. The Administration is sorely perplexed in consequence of the delay in the case of this bill, and the indignation yesterday at the While IIouso must have been excessive. Cin. Commercial. Apr. i!7. The Supreme Court of California has ren dered a decision adverse to the interests of John C. Fremont n tha mailer of his right to the gold taken from his land in Mariposa county. John has a hard time of it with the Mariposa gold. Cin. CommeraiuL Bachelors are not entirely lost to the refinement of sentiment, for the following toast was given by one of them at a celebration: "The Ladies sweet briars ia the garden of life." Ohio's Pkoorsss. The old Hartford Cow-ant has heard of Ohio, and thus astonishes it readers : "It was aeventy-one' years Wednesday, since the emigrant party I row New Hampshire lauded at Marietta, Ohio. This was th first permanent settlement of the whit inhabitants in that territory. Among those-who went with the inlant colony wero Gen. Iewis Cass, Ex-Governor Woodbriiige, of Michigan, and Dr. Hildreth, who yet live, anil enjoy a vigorous oid ago. Thomas Kwin delivered an oration at Marietta, that day, celebration of this interesting anniversary. What a change in seventy-one years I Ohio has now 2,0tXi,000 people, indusirious, enterprising, intelligent. She has $850,000,000 of taxable property ; $3,500,Oou in school houses ; and an annual school tax for the education of all her children of $2,500,000, and moro miles of canal and railroad than arty State iu the Union. How wonderful hat been her growth and ber progress in all the. elements of material, moral and intellectual wealth." Italias Malepactobs for America. Thero having recently heeu landed at Liverpool fourteen Italians, of suspiciousclmracter, the British Charge at Constantinople, from whence they were shipjied, inquired into the matter, and replying to his government says: Those fourteen were the most respccdi'hls portion of a total number of eight hundred persons who have, since May last, been shipped from this port for various puns of tha world, with the intontion of purging thin country of a hordo of malefactors wht had become the scourge of society. The Porto contributed 11 Inwards the passuge of those sent to England, 3 more were paid toward it out of a subscription raised by the Italian Literary Socioty.aud another sum ol'uOl'rancS) was mlbrded to them out of the same fund, payable by the captain on landing theui. Dr. Chieriri asserts that Her Majesty's umhussa-dor had promised to write to the authorities) at Liverpool, to request them to facilitate th passage of these persons lo Ameiic4 or Australia."A Goon Hit. The New York j'mei gets off this good one, iu reply to Mr. buclutmui's organ ; Tho Washington Unirn objects to our going for " popular sovereignty;" it says we have no right to appropriate Doiuocratie principle-. The reason does not sustain the objection. The Democrats abandoned the doctrine be lore we took it. When the Administrationwent for Convention sovereignty, and excommunicated those Democrats who adhered to p.jiitiur sovereignty, we thou-ht the principle lair game. It wus a waif and estray the lawful proper ty of tho finder. If tha Democracy wishes to maintain a tille to its principles, it must not leave them lying around Ioumi iu tins stylo. Schools in Ohio. Tho report of the Ohio Commissioners of Common Schools lor tha year, 1850. gives the number of soool districts in the State as 8,001; scholars enrolled 002,545; averago attendance 350,807; tho total nuinVier of youths 842,840; number of mule tci c:iers, 10.18U, female teachers 8,04; paid to uialo teachers- $1 842,810, to female teachers $."8J,157. The report embraces returns also of nineteen seminaries uml eleven colleges. In the colleges there are 1,C'J5 pupils pursuing a full course; and there arn in the pieparatory department 1,525 pupils. The value of tho colleges property is StiKo.OOO.und the endowments amount to,$70O,UuO. Their libraries contain altogether, 80,3000 volumes. WuoHcr Ilyublicaii. Saturday Niubt. Every Saturday eve ning has to my car a gentle knell. The week tolls itseil away; the hist, sccoud,lhird,fourlu, fifth, sixth, and ihu perfict seventh, and I can almost hear thcu beating a melodical measure as they recede-. 1 tine uoes not end all at once. It is ending, in part, every day, und hour and moment. And when the angel shall lift up hi hand, and swear by Him who livetli forever that it shall be no longer, the years which aro past will not then have euuud mure than now. Class in Genehhl Geoorai-ut : " Stand up Thomas, stop scratching your noggin. Robert, keep your fingers out of tint ink lot-tie 1 Now answer me, Dick, how u Pennsylvania bounded ?" " Bounded on tho norf by several places, on the east by several more, on the soul by everywhere, and on the west by all crealiuo." " Wrong next ? " " Pennsylvania is Ixmndcd on the norf by short nosed abolitionists, clam-Ukes, and other vegetables, on the east by considerable quantity of salt water, on the soul' by cane brake politicians, wood and dismal swamps, on the west by aligatunt, tall mountains and three story steamboats ou the high pressure principle." " Right go up head." A beautiful inscription, it is said, may be lie found in an Italiau graveyard: ' Hire lies Ktellc, who transported a large fortuo to heaven in acts of charily, aud has gone to enjoy it." (tt"Rcd Cheeks are only oxygen in anoth. cr shape, liirls anxious lo wear a pair will find them where the roses do out of dooi. fKr The man who was 'moved to ienr,' complains of tho dampness ofthe premises, and wishes to move back again. (UT Sir C. Napier said. "I asked a dirty fellow black as a sweep, if acoal-pit could be descended without spoiling my clolhi-s " -Lor bless you, I goes down ten times a day, aud uever minds my clothes!' was his answer. (XT An exchange paper says the most dignified, glorious, and lovely work of nature is woman the nest man and thirdly the Berkshire pig. fr ' Paddy says a joker, - why don't yon get your ears cmnped tiny are entirely too long for a man ? " . "And jours," replied Pat, "oujrht to be lengthened they are too short fur an .," OCT The pirls use powder on their fnoe m men do in the taiukcl puu lo make them go uu. 0P Wh doe mortification fti ? " When you pop the question, and are aiiwr-ed no." f5" Senator Johnson, nl Tenneusr, Myt in his last speech that he has not p"t m-tny slaves ; that he h got a few : and thai n' mailt them by hie aw a iouustry. uivi7)i Journal. . , ' -. w '

JF O. i ll V 'I W EU K m M f VOL IV. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 4, 1858. NO. 2 ' " "if I LOVE THE NPlUKCI-TiraE. BY MBS. BUM1NA A. PARKER. I lovb Hie fresh, the verdunt spring, When nature all in grandeur sings The love of God j Ttio spreading leaf, tho opening flower, Tim loosened fount, and pontle shower, Pioclnirn hi to good. I love to hear the wild birds, sing, As they soar and glance with lightsome wing O'er the green earth, Ah if in thought'ul joy their lays Were turned to speak their Milker's praise, For earth8 new birth. I love to sit 'neath the leafy trees, And listen as the w hispciiig breczo Stents softly by, And feel its warm breath fun my cheek To u happy glow, us it sweetly speaks Of summer nigh. I love to wander tiie brook beside, Where the dancing, bubbling waters glide Su merrily on, And watch the thousand insects guy, Rejoicing where tho sunbeams play The waves uton. I love to roam 'neath the wildwood shad.', And turn the leaves that long h ive laid Muldering there, And see the purple violet peep, With laughing eye, froi its wint'ry sleep, A thing so fair. I love to bury the tiny seed, And watch it spring to a little blade Of boefiil green ; Then put forth leaves and branching stems, With buds and blossoms, like clustering gums, Of rival sheen. And I love to think that thus we may Poor travelers of a stormy day From death's cool sleep, Awake to an eternal spring, Where llowers their rainbow colors fling, With odors sweet. Like birds we'll mount the heavenly air, Rejoicing in new beauties there Unceasingly ; Our eyes forever wandering o'er Bright fields and streams on Canan's shore, Unwcariedly. AUXOBIOGUAPIIY OF A LAW-YER.BY WILLIAM B. OLIVER. . I believe that I starto J in life under the auspices of my father's aunt Deborah, a maiden lady of 04, who, in place of the father and mother whom I never saw, alternately petted and scolded me as long as she was able. I escaped from both when I was eleven years old by running away; and although she sent ine innumeraoie messages, hcii .v.-my whereabouts, to return to her, and be sent to school and fitted for college, I undutilully refused to go near her again. I had "hired out" with a small fanner to do Lis ' chores" for my board and clothes, and I stayed there three years; at tho end of which time my roving propensities uioied me to run off from him. I had made all my nr-.rangemcnts, and even wus mounted on tlu topof the Reading stage, when w ho should come into tho tavern bul the farmer. '.Where are you going, buy?" he called out. in a hard and severe tone. "To Huston, sir." "To Boston !" ; I cannot describe the manner in which he said this, but it woke up all tho memories of laggings which left scars got, I have not time to tell you how, any more than the immortal Fusbos had. . He was a coarse, pru'ane man, and he hunched out into a strain ol ubuse which would have made my blood chill it I hud been afraid of him, and b ide mo get down instantly and go huuu. "Thank you, sir," I said, "I am engaged to somebody else." At this moment the stage started. lie ordered the driver to stop and let me down, bul lie drove on, and I am a' most ashamed to record that I mado a significant gesture with my thumb and linger upon my very decent Roman nose, and calling out "Good bye, sir you shall hear of mo some day," I went olF in the exultant triumph of freedom. I was delighted with the fine prospect which I enjoyed in my elevated seat. Tho driver was very kind to me, refusing to take my money for the whole journey, and offering to find me a stopping place in the city. At that time there was a very old house in Howard street, now demolished, In which a Jlr. Jones, kept boarders for a number of years. Here ho stopped the atage for me to yto get down. "What shall I do, driver?' said I. ''J.ust ring that bell, toy lad," he answered and somebody will come and let you in." I .looked up at the top of the door.' "I don't see any bell, sir," said I timidly. The man burst out in a loud laugh. "Pull that knob, greeny!" he said at last nd I stroighiway pulled it again and again; until Mr. Jowua queer looking old fellow, with one leg, and a dilapidated eye, came to the door, aod looked daggers out of the remaining orb of vision, upoa the luckless wight who had broken his wire "Let that youngster stay with you, and Ma'am Jones till I come torupper," said tho Still laughing driver; and I stayed. M.i'ain Jones was a lady that would have made a fine companion for Daniel Lambert. Sheltered beneath her capacious wing, I could bid defiance to little Mr. Jones, whodxred not attack anything whleh his wife might take a fancy for petting. The old lady liked me very WUflh; and this knowlodgo, together with the daily sight of my old friend, the driver; kept me contented and happy through' the winter I itourcd knit es and ferloroifd quite a seri ofsimular dignified labors every morning ; but when boys of my own age were round, I some times thought, while looking at their good and respectable clothing, that it would not have been a very bad plan for mo to have accepted aunt Deborah's offer of sending me lo college. An opportunity offering to go soa, I prepv red to go, despite the entreaties and tears of the fat landlady. When she found ine determined, (lie piovided me with everything needful for the voyage, hugged me to her capacious heart and bade me God speed Jones, who was so angry la-cause I stayed there, was .still more so when 1 went away; and in his wile's absence taunted mo with my new clothes, which he more than half suspected came from her, all hough they passed as the gift of the stage driver. The' servants all assembled to seo me go away, and their hearty "Good bye, Sam! A sale leluin to ym old fellow!" was piubtbly more sincere than nir.c lenthsofihe good-byes i hut have been spoken to me since that time. I .-.hull not say but very little about my sea life. It did not answer my expectations lit all. I never passed a day without intolerable sea sickness, and being a slight delicate hoy, the captain advised me as a friend to stay in futuie upon the land. Going on shore the mats stepped forward and shook my hand, saying: "Well. Sam, you have killed a sailor after all." I did not then know tho meaning of this phrase, but when I got back to the ol J house in Howard street, my Irieml tho driver, repeated it, and from him I got tho expla" nation of the term. I could nut go back to the kitchen to work again after my voyage, so I looked dilligently for some employment. An advertisement in the paper for a printer's boy caught my eye, and I applied and was received. Here I was quite happy. I made myself a favorito in the office, and fortunately succeeded in learning the business so that my services would command a fair remuneration. At twenty-one I married Susan Russell, the daughter of my employer. I am thus brief in recording this, because no alchemy whatever could convert l!ie old fashioned andmatter-of-fact liking for each other, and subse. quent union, in anything like romance. Tho whole might bo comprosed in a single sentence I liked her and married ber, when I found she also liked mc. My description of our new home would bo quite as brief. We took two rooms, furnished them comfortably, and Susan kept them shin, ing like silver tho whole year round. If I ev-er enjoyed truo, real, unremitted happiness, without care or anxiety, or fear for tho future, it was in those days. What peace wo enjoyed! Our two eldest children was born hero, and then our limits seemed too sma'l; but it was real pain to both of us to move from tho snug abode which had been tho scene of so many calm and peaceful hours. Wo removed to a cotta&e in tho suburbs of Boston; not those miniature cities which now rise up beside the venerable Tri-mountain. but a small and obscure village, since risen to i ho size and importance it deserves. About the time that we removed, and were quietly settled, a vei) important law case was on the docket, and when it came on, we were very busy printing the rcHrts'of the trial as it progressed. I became intensely absorbed in it; not so much from sympathy with tho par-ties concerned as from feeling, that, were I acquainted wiih the technicalities of the law, I could seize upon very many points of iuqior-tin Ci which I believed the prisoner's counsel had overlooked altogether. This idea grew stronger upon my mind. had access to law books liicli were in my employer's s itietum, and I pored over them sometimes all night lung. Mr. Hussell had been bred to the law, but had relinquished his profession for that of an. editor, some years before the birth of my wife, I fr inkly stated to him my wishes in regard to fitting myself for the bar. He first laughed at, then seriously triedto dissuade mo from attempting it Opposition only strengthened my pusposo, and I entored the office of an eminent lawyer, who over looked my deficiencies in some respects, in consideration, as he was pleased to term u, of the talent and acutnon which my replies to his questions displayed. I now wrote for the journal I had been accustomed to print, and with such secrecy that Mr. Russell did not find out who his new contributor was. Ho would often wondor, in my presence, who it could be, and ascribed to him a degree of talent and brilliancy of ex pression such as I hardly hoped to deserve. Ho often, too. imputed my articles to and , then the two leading writers of the day, and expressed his opinion that tboy would not remain incog., a great while. This flattery pleased me, but I did not allow my vanity to lead me into betraying myself. Through a thin! party, I received a larger compensation for my labors, certainly, than I should have done had my wise father-in-law mistiusted who was his correspondent. I studied hard, and had at length the inex pressible satisfaction of beirg admitted to the Suffolk bar. I took an office with another young lawyer, in order to reduce our expen, penscs, and waited anxiously for the first brief period that thouhUie suffered. Poor Susan! My heart aches at the remembrance of certain privations to which with angel sweetness, she submitted at this period, in order that 1 might appear respectable. My contributions to various literary journals barely gave us the means of suste nance; and I bad so nearly offended Mr. Kus- sell by slightiog bjs advice that I dared not apply to him for assistance. Ono day, in passing from our suburban res-idonco to the city, I mot my old landlady Mrs. Jones. She looked at me hard and I returned it.' There was no mistaking that good honest countenance and expressive form even when dressed as it was in the deepest mourning. A widow's ample veil hung over tho back of ber head and nearly swept the street. The recognition was mutual, and the old lady's raptures at finding me, were almost too strong for out door exhibition. Sue told me of poor Jones's death, and ol their removing to the country, when the old house in Howard street as loin down. "And now," she said plaintively, "I am alono in the world." "Come and live with me," were my first words, "l uu gave me a home when I was a lone child." I stopped, tor the thought pressed back up on me that I wus poor, aid unable even to maintain my own family. A strange smile flitted over the face of my friend, while she inquired my situ uion. I told hor, and des- criiied my wife and children She said: I will go to you. I can help your wife enough to pay lor my board." 1 was almost dismiyed at what I had done when I considered tho immense appetite which I had inconsiderately offered to supply and which I well romeinbered of old. Rut I clung to my bargain, and begel her to come immediately. "You will find us in rather close quarters," I said, "but you shall comj and bo welcome." We agreed that she should ha there that following Monday, and I went home to Susan whom I met with rather embarrassed air. She looked ut the matter more philosophical ly than I expected, and prepared her best chamber for Mrs. Jones' reception, heroically carrying in many little conveniences of which wo had no dupli catcs. My relation of Mrs. Jones' former kindness to mc, and my description of her present lone ly and widowed state, made Susan shod tears. Sho promised to do everything in her power for the forlorn woman whom she thought would now bo thrown upon me for mainten ance and upon herself for companionship. Mrs. Jonss arrived on Monday morning, carpet-bag in hand, and followed by a handcart, bearing her old fashioned and somewhat dilapidated hair trunk. We received her kindly, and she seemed pleased and happy when she sat down to Susan's simplo but ex cellent dinner. The children were attentive, and kept passing the food near to the new guest. A fortnight passed away, and wo began to feel that we could scarcely do without Mrs, Jones. She was invaluablo as an assistant to Susan, and in marketing for us, her services were beyond all praise. Wo gave her our slender purse every morning, as she thought she could do better with it than we could; and it was perfectly amazing to see the loads of provisions and the superior quality of the same which sho obtained. Susan and I b.'gun to think that wo had been grievously cheated in our former purchases. S-, when our wardrobe imperatively ca'.ied for additions, Mrs. Jones would go out with the money for l sixpenny print, ami return with something really In.n dsoine and valuable for my wile, and a nice remnant for little Kitty, airt then slu would sit down and in ike tiiein both up with all the skill of an experienced munlo.uu iker. Sisun Inn Jed me sum. bills, one day, that she said were left there by a collector, including one for our rent, and one for the last suit ol clothes which I had been unwillingly foictd to buy in oidor to keep up a respectable op-pjurauce. My countenance fell some degiiees 1 lane, tor 1 bad no money to pay them. Mrs. Jones was bustling round the dinner table, and she said, rather sadly, that she lelt that she onjlit not to bj living upon us, and perhaps she bad butler go away. "Never, my good friend!" said I, and "never!" echoed Susy. I assured her that I would not listen to her leaving us that I trusted very soon to get business, and that come what would she should share our bAt loaf. The good old soul hugged us both atjfyce, and then settling her cap and wiping her eyes, she went quietly back to her work. After dinner, sho went out, but we reiterated the injunction that she should not seek another home as long as she could put up with ours. I called round in the evening at tho various places from whence I had received the bills. To my utter surprise the answer was that they had all been settled, I inquired by whom, but no one could recollect. They were all cancelled on tho various books. I was thoroughly amazed, for I knew no one bul Mr. Russell who could do it for mo, and hardly believed it of him. Susy was as surprised as myself, but she lather inclined to the belief that it was her fattier, lo I quietly let her indulge in her pleasant belief. We got through the summer, but the winter was coming on, and I actually trembled at its approach. Industrious as I was prudent as Susy has ever been we could not hope to go through tho cold season without both suffering and toil, and with debt superadded. I had been at the office all day, on one I gloomy day in November, anxiously debating whethorl should not go back to printing again. I considered all the whys and wherefores, counted the costs again and again, and by tho most careful arithmetic, I could not find that the change would benefit me a single sou. I was toiling anremittingly now, and I should have to do so if I returned to priming, and with scarcely so much success as now. I became heartily discouraged at the prospect before me. Had I been alone in the world I could patiently hare betne it. Suffering and privation brought no terrors to me individually, but the thought of those who were dear to me at home unmanned me. And the darker the prospect, the more I shrunk from allowing Mrs. Jones to feel that she was a burden upon us. No come what might, the good old soul should not be removed from the circle in which she teemed to have placed all her happiness. Sho should live with us as long as sho lived at all, and if we were reduced to beggary, why, wo would beg for ber loo. I started up and paced the office with nn impatient step. It may seem strange that a strong, healthy man should be so powerless as I was lo procure a living; but so it was. It was growing d irk, and I lelt it was near uiy time to go home. 1 had intended sending some fuel to my home, but I was disappointed iu some money that acertuin publish er of a daily pajier wus owing me, and I now dreaded that there was a darkness on the hearth at homo. I was just locking up, when a boy came up to mo with a folded paper. I read it under the lump post. It run . thus: 'Come to No. , Treiiiont Road, at six o'clock. I saw no alternative but to do as I was ask ed. The boy was gone, so I could make no excuse; and I walked over ibe damp leaves that lay crushed upon the sidewalk, which tho November blast had shaken that very hour from the trees. I went over tho ground rapidly, for I wanted to learn the errand and be away. I rang at tho number designated. It was a good brick house, with substantial granite steps, a well-lighted vestibule with glass loors, and I could seo that the wholo front was well supplied with gas. I heard little feot scampering through the hall, but as the doors were of ground glass I could seo noth ing. A servant came to the door, and waited on mo to a handsome drawing-room, with plain but good furniture I waited in curious spec ulation for some minutes. Thero had beon no plate on tho door, so I could not even tell the name of tho person wishing to seo me . I was standing beforo tho chimney-piece ex amining a picture, when a little child ran into the room. It was so like little Kilty that I would have called her so, had not tho pretty embroidered robe and silk apron looked so dif ferent from our children's plain clothes. Rut another little head was peeping in at the open door, and that was like little Charley, only (or tho scarlet frock and neat gaiters; and then tho two mado a long rush across tho floor and ran into my arms, while slowly and majestically, sweeping along in her ample crapes and bombazines, came portly Mrs. Jones, and be hind her, Susy smiling and blushing like the dawn. I think I had a womanly feeling come upon me just then. I felt a sort of faintness, and I passed my hand across my eyes to be sure that I was awake. Susy laid her band on my shoulder. 'You owe it to our kind friend here,' she whispered. 'She has been trying you deep-ly.''Trying mc?' I said aloud. 'Yes, my good friend,' said Mrs. Jones herself, 'I was rich, and had no one about mc but selfish and interested people who all wanted tny money. I have long owned this house, and lived in it when I met you first; but a thought suggested by your invitation to go to you, induced me to try whether you would keep me if I had hapnened to be poor, and I am abundantly satisfied with the result. We made money at tho old house in Howard St., which no ono but ourselves ever knew of, and I always intended to find you out and make you my heir. I had, however, rather that you would enjoy my property while I can have the pleasure of seeing y.iu; so I invite you to return my visit. You will find a handsome office, well lilted up for you in Court street, when you go down town to-morrow morning The boy who will wait on you has the key of the door, but here are the keys of the desk and library.' I declare to you, reader, tho generosity of this woman unmar.ned me more than the disconsolate thoughts which haunted mo the whole afternoon. It seemed too good to bo-licve, and when we walked out to tho dining-room, and sat down to a supper at which no expense was spared, I could only look from one to the other and wonder if I was in a dream. I took possession of my grand office the next day. Briefs poured in apon mc; for who will not require the services of a rich lawyer, and who wanls those of a poor one? I rose rapidly, and am still standing in high places. I speak it with reverence, I owe it all to a woman.Wo bought the cottage with its little gar-don, and wo go there in summer and play poverty ngain for a few of the hottest weeks. Wo have four children now, and Mrs. Jones pets tbcm all. She is now trying to have mc seek out my old Aunt Deborah, and perhaps I will. The old farmer, too, I intend now that ho shall hear from me.' Fdee Soil Victoihks is Missouri. We have already recorded tho triumph of freo labor and free soil in the municipal elections in in St. Louis and Jefferson City. Other important points in Missouri have felt the quickening influence, and Boonvillo and Kansas City also stand wan si. iiouis on me lanor and immigration question. In Boonvillo, Mr. McDearmon has been chosen Mayor. He was the candidate for Auditor on the Benton ticket two years ago, and is a staunch advocate of free labor. In Kansas City, Mr. Payne, a free Democrat, and opposed to Lecompton and all other slavery swindles, is chosen Mayor, also, by a handsome majority. Wootter Republican.(r Mr. Chicken has been sent as U. S. CodsuI to Acopulca lie should have had the consulate to Sbaogahi. , Fruui tli. Aiilitiiliula Ohio Sentinel. LETTElt i'HOTI HON. J. It. GIO- PROGRESS OF TIIE CAUSE OP FREEDOM IN" NEW HAMPSHIRE. Washington, March 10. To (lit rewlert of (Ik Sentintl : It were useless to speculate upon the prospect of admitting Kansas under tho Lecor.iplon fraud. A few days will tell tho story. In the meantime, we murk the onward progress of our cause in New Hampshire. The election of lust week has demonstrated the teruiunent Republican aconduiicy in that old commonwealth. In no part of the Union has the present revolution been more inuiked. 1 have bad reason lor observing it with intense interest. ' During my early service in Congress, he representatives of that Slate were regarded as the most servile of Northern flunkeys. They appeared to glory in their political shame. They were never so happy as when stooping down to unloose the lalchet of some slaveholders shoe. I shall never forget their votes upon a bill to pay lor slaves stolen by Ihu followeis of Gen. Jackson's camp, when he invaded Florida, in 181 1. To moi.1 Northern men the idea of inking money from the pockels of their constituents to pay for human flesh, stolen by oouinern uesperuuoes, was regarded as insult-ling. I led oil' iu the a guuient against the bill, and was lollowed by two or three slaveholders in favor of it, when Mr. Adams clos ed l lie debate iu a must able and lucid expose oi us true cuaruclcr. 1'ickens and Camp. Iiell.of South Carolina, and all the more respectable slaveholders, voted against the bill ; but the New Hampshire delegation, and perhaps a dozen other doughfaces, and some of the more obscure slaveholders, in all thirty-two, stood up recklessly lo the work, and voted for the bill, appearing to regard it a privilege to tax their constituents to pay for slaves stolen in a Spanish Province thirty years previously.I need not refer to the fact that one of New Hampshire's most distinguished sons of that day.won forhimselfan immorality ofinfumy by presenting certain propositions, which have lor twenty years been characterized as "Alb-erton's gag resolutions." He actually be-camo popular in his State, and was elected to tho Senate, on account of his efforts to suppress the freedom of debate which the Constitution had clearly guaranteed to every member. It was well understood at the time, that he acted as the mere instrument of Slaveholders : that his resolutions had been drawn by Mr. Calhoun ; yet while acting as tho slave of the South, he mado a speech which will long constitute a monument in commemoration of the stupidity, the arrogance, tho servility of New Hampshire Democracy of mat day. Ainerton has gone to his final account, but his base servility ought not to be soon forgotlcn. It should be kept in remembrance until ourcountry shall be fully redeemed from that servile depravity, of which ho was a most perlect mamleslution. When, in 181'J, I was arraigned before the IIouso of Representatives, for denying tho right of Congress to make war with'ttngland in order to sustain a coinuierco in men and women upon our Southern coast; to compel the Democrats of New Hampshire to die on the battle field, in. order that Southern Pirates mixht continue their vocation of buying and selling better men than those who then represented the Old Granite State in Cungrcsr.; there was a great indignation manifested by ihe doughfaces, cgainst me. As I entered tho Capitol on the morning of the second day ol my trial, 1 met a distinguished member of the New Hampshire delegation; who, if he should read this article, will recollect the remarkable emphasis with which be declared that, if he "had the power ho would li wij me and every otliet niuiiuito uttered ihedodrtnrs to xohkh I held." 1 left him with a perfect conviction of the total depravity of New Hampshire Democracy. The entire delegation from that State voted lor tny censure, in consequence of my having declared them so elevated as to be unwilling to die for the maintenance of u practical commerce in mankind. In justice to itiem , 1 feel constrained to say that 1 think they were sincere.if a certain honest and honorable slaveholder, who represented ono oi the Districts of Georgia in the Congress, be yet living, and recollect the events of that day, lie mihl tell how a distinguished member from New Hampshue, and a distinguished Democratic memlierfioiii my own State, conspired to re- j move me fioiu the post of Chairman of the Committee on Claims, in Consequence of opinions which I held in regard to Slavery. I wus generously informed that I might avoid the mortification ol a removal, by resigning my position and asking tho Committee to appoint another man. This self stultification I declined, and the day for removal was set. I was ut the committee room in the morning, promptly at the hour of meeting. I was met by a majority of the Committee, and we proceeded lo the ordinary business before us; but neither my democratic friends from New Hampshire, nor my colleague f rom Ohio, wus there. It was whispered to me that they had given up ihe idea of removing me, in consequence of the slaveholders of the Comiuittoo having declined to act with the doughluces for tho accomplishment of such an object. I shall not soon forget tho dawning of the first moral improvement in New Hampshire politics. Our home squadron had been organized principally for the assistance and protection of the coast-wise slave trade. And when slaves from Florida had attempted to cross over to the Bahnma Islands, the Homo Squadron furnished men and craft to pursuo and bring them back. While considering the bill makingappropriations for that service, I spoke of the management of the Home Squadron with some disgust and contempt. Mr. Adams followed me in smoother language, moro mature thought and strongerargument. At this juncture, John P. Hale, a democrat from New Hampshire, obtained the floor. I knew him, but as he was a delegate from that State, I bad desired no acquaintance with bim. Yet to my perfect astonishment he spoke boldly and sensibly, lie appeared to pour out hii honest sentiments wilhout the fear of democracy before his eyes. When he closed, Mr. Adams spoke to me of the effort as very creditable to a young member. I answered that such sentiments, if maintained by one man of such ability, could regenerate New Uumpshire; to which he replied, with a smilo of wonder at my verdancy, saying "that would he a great work." But that work, great as1 it has been, and "it is truly wondrous in our eyes," has been con-lummuted.- When Mr. Hale was driven from Congress by his democaatlo friends, for his opposition to the annexation of Texas, he went to work for the regeneration of his Stato. He was joined by other gallant spirits who, with him.exhib-ted true moral heroism: long and ably did thoy toil in the cam. of Frwdoca, The flrs:i fruit of their efforts was the election of Mr Tuck, from the district which Hale had formerly represented. Mr. Tuck was a true man, Side by side with Palfrey and Allen, and Wilrnotand Root, and lhnkee and Julien, he louirht many a bard battle; and, like his asso ciates, ably maintained his principles and in tegrity. 1 heir names are ull dear lo my heart. 1 love the men. I resiiect and honor their ability, their unyielding firmness, their self- sucrihcc, tlieir devotion lo liuinnu rights. The reformation of tho S'nte continued steadily to progress until the Legislature be came republican, and Hale, who hod been driven It oiu the lloue of Representatives by the Democracy, was returned to the Senate. That day constituted an era in the life of New Hampshire's shleM Slutes an. lie soon stood forth a leader of Freedom's hosts, iu the taiiule and in the auIioq. The people of the Western Reserve will not soon forget his visit to Ohio, iu 1852; nor will they soon forget his noble bearing, his eloquence, his devotion to the cause oi lilwity. He had been selected as the national standard liearer of Freedom's hosts. From youlh Franklin Pierce had been his competitor. and in some cases his persecutor. When Hale came out for Freedom, Pierce endeavored to break him down, to disgrace him. Pierce was the democratic cnndilmu for the Presi dency, with a moral certainty of an election. hale saw clearly that I teico would succeed unless there werea perfect union ol'ull the op posing parlies. Ueprelened such a union lo the success ct Pierce mid ttiereloie declined the nomination. But the Convention ut Pitts burg showed lo the country, tiiat the lovers of liberty would no longer join in the support of any man who wus not uM iiIy commuted to the L'teut cause. In obedience to tho request of that Convention he reconsidered that sub ject became our candidate; uud though not wealthy, he traversed Uluo nnd most ol our Western States ulhis own expense, bearinir aloft our glorious banner und adding strength to our cause. The people of Ashtabula County will long remember the day when ho spoke to the thou sand who assembled ut Orwell. He had spo ken at Warren fiom 10 o'clock A. M, until half past twelve; then rode twenty miles; and for three hours our people appeared spell-bound by the glorious truths which he uttered. "To tho luborers of John P. Halo, inoro than to those of any other man, are tho people of New Hnnishiro indebted for their high po litical position. A full delegation of Republicans now represent the Old Grat'iic State in the most numerous br anch of Congress. No firmer, truer, or abler men now hold seats in this body, than Tappun. Craginand Pike. When I contrast them with liurke, Alherlon and Shaw, who sat here twenty years since, 1 feel overwhelmed with tho change. Yet tho change of this body is not more striking than it is in the Senate. Hale and Clark now occupy tho seats filled by Hubbard and Pierce twenty years since. Mr. Crittenden, of Kentucky, is now tho only memlier of that body who held a seat in 1Hu8. He, and he alone, can sieak of tho great chango from actual association. But tho recent election turnishes the most indubitable evidence that New lliimshire is fully regenerated permanently disenthralled; und I trust we may soon make llio same declaration ol every other free State. , G- CoL. Benton's Will. Col. Benton, like many of the most distinguished men of the nation, died poor. His lung and laborious public and private labors fuiled to secure him the wealth so ollen acquired by men uf very moderate talents. Speaking of Col. Benton's property a Washington correspondent says: "I learn that, although Col. Benton went through the usual formalities of inakinga w ill ho, nevertheless died very poor. The creditors of his estate are not likely, however, to press their claims unpleasantly, and, if a project on foot in reference to a certain disposi-.liun of his latest liieiury luliois is successfully curried out, hi- debts will probably bo paid in lull. Every one who bud business dealings with him speaks in the strongest terms of his Spartan sense uf honor and faithfulness to his engagements, and one secret of his late indefatigable labors is the fact of his extreme anxiety to cancel every pecuniary obligation before his decease." AuoustiseanuFlavbi. ON INTEMI'KRASCK. There is no belter or more foreib'o description of intemperance, than that given by St. Augustine, who calls it, " A distemper of the bead ; a subversion of the senses ; a tempest in the tongue ; a storm iu the body ; a snip-wreck of virtue ; Ibe loss of time ; a will'ull-ful madness ; a pleasant devil ; a sugured poison ; a sweet sin, which he that has it, has not himself ; and be that commits it, doth not only commit sin, but be himself is altogether sin." ' Intemperance has lieen aptly called," saith Flavel, " the devil's brid. by which he turn-eth sinners which way lie pleases ; he that is overcome by it, can overuuma no other sin." Among the heathen he was accounted tho best man that spent more oil iu the lamp than wine in the bottle. On Saturday last, when Conductor Tom Clilford was on his way from Syracuse to Buffalo, he found on leaving Syracuse that two scats in the 'ar were closely filled by a woman and six children. The lady produced but ono ticket, and assured tho conductor that all her little family were under six years of age, and wero iherefore not cbargcnble with lare by the rules of the Company. On a close inspection of tho little boys and girls, he bo-came convinced that the eldest could not be seven years old, anl so lot them pass for lap passengers. The parent was a Yankee lady bound for Illinois. Tub Deficiency Bill as Amenpep is tub Senate Defeated in tub House. Our head line givesexpressioiiito an event of much importance which took place yestorday. The House some timo ago, alter a period of severe travail, passed the Deficiency Bill. The Bill was amended in the Senate. Yesterday the House refused to accept the amendments of the So nato. Here is a chance lor another Committee of Conference. The Administration is sorely perplexed in consequence of the delay in the case of this bill, and the indignation yesterday at the While IIouso must have been excessive. Cin. Commercial. Apr. i!7. The Supreme Court of California has ren dered a decision adverse to the interests of John C. Fremont n tha mailer of his right to the gold taken from his land in Mariposa county. John has a hard time of it with the Mariposa gold. Cin. CommeraiuL Bachelors are not entirely lost to the refinement of sentiment, for the following toast was given by one of them at a celebration: "The Ladies sweet briars ia the garden of life." Ohio's Pkoorsss. The old Hartford Cow-ant has heard of Ohio, and thus astonishes it readers : "It was aeventy-one' years Wednesday, since the emigrant party I row New Hampshire lauded at Marietta, Ohio. This was th first permanent settlement of the whit inhabitants in that territory. Among those-who went with the inlant colony wero Gen. Iewis Cass, Ex-Governor Woodbriiige, of Michigan, and Dr. Hildreth, who yet live, anil enjoy a vigorous oid ago. Thomas Kwin delivered an oration at Marietta, that day, celebration of this interesting anniversary. What a change in seventy-one years I Ohio has now 2,0tXi,000 people, indusirious, enterprising, intelligent. She has $850,000,000 of taxable property ; $3,500,Oou in school houses ; and an annual school tax for the education of all her children of $2,500,000, and moro miles of canal and railroad than arty State iu the Union. How wonderful hat been her growth and ber progress in all the. elements of material, moral and intellectual wealth." Italias Malepactobs for America. Thero having recently heeu landed at Liverpool fourteen Italians, of suspiciousclmracter, the British Charge at Constantinople, from whence they were shipjied, inquired into the matter, and replying to his government says: Those fourteen were the most respccdi'hls portion of a total number of eight hundred persons who have, since May last, been shipped from this port for various puns of tha world, with the intontion of purging thin country of a hordo of malefactors wht had become the scourge of society. The Porto contributed 11 Inwards the passuge of those sent to England, 3 more were paid toward it out of a subscription raised by the Italian Literary Socioty.aud another sum ol'uOl'rancS) was mlbrded to them out of the same fund, payable by the captain on landing theui. Dr. Chieriri asserts that Her Majesty's umhussa-dor had promised to write to the authorities) at Liverpool, to request them to facilitate th passage of these persons lo Ameiic4 or Australia."A Goon Hit. The New York j'mei gets off this good one, iu reply to Mr. buclutmui's organ ; Tho Washington Unirn objects to our going for " popular sovereignty;" it says we have no right to appropriate Doiuocratie principle-. The reason does not sustain the objection. The Democrats abandoned the doctrine be lore we took it. When the Administrationwent for Convention sovereignty, and excommunicated those Democrats who adhered to p.jiitiur sovereignty, we thou-ht the principle lair game. It wus a waif and estray the lawful proper ty of tho finder. If tha Democracy wishes to maintain a tille to its principles, it must not leave them lying around Ioumi iu tins stylo. Schools in Ohio. Tho report of the Ohio Commissioners of Common Schools lor tha year, 1850. gives the number of soool districts in the State as 8,001; scholars enrolled 002,545; averago attendance 350,807; tho total nuinVier of youths 842,840; number of mule tci c:iers, 10.18U, female teachers 8,04; paid to uialo teachers- $1 842,810, to female teachers $."8J,157. The report embraces returns also of nineteen seminaries uml eleven colleges. In the colleges there are 1,C'J5 pupils pursuing a full course; and there arn in the pieparatory department 1,525 pupils. The value of tho colleges property is StiKo.OOO.und the endowments amount to,$70O,UuO. Their libraries contain altogether, 80,3000 volumes. WuoHcr Ilyublicaii. Saturday Niubt. Every Saturday eve ning has to my car a gentle knell. The week tolls itseil away; the hist, sccoud,lhird,fourlu, fifth, sixth, and ihu perfict seventh, and I can almost hear thcu beating a melodical measure as they recede-. 1 tine uoes not end all at once. It is ending, in part, every day, und hour and moment. And when the angel shall lift up hi hand, and swear by Him who livetli forever that it shall be no longer, the years which aro past will not then have euuud mure than now. Class in Genehhl Geoorai-ut : " Stand up Thomas, stop scratching your noggin. Robert, keep your fingers out of tint ink lot-tie 1 Now answer me, Dick, how u Pennsylvania bounded ?" " Bounded on tho norf by several places, on the east by several more, on the soul by everywhere, and on the west by all crealiuo." " Wrong next ? " " Pennsylvania is Ixmndcd on the norf by short nosed abolitionists, clam-Ukes, and other vegetables, on the east by considerable quantity of salt water, on the soul' by cane brake politicians, wood and dismal swamps, on the west by aligatunt, tall mountains and three story steamboats ou the high pressure principle." " Right go up head." A beautiful inscription, it is said, may be lie found in an Italiau graveyard: ' Hire lies Ktellc, who transported a large fortuo to heaven in acts of charily, aud has gone to enjoy it." (tt"Rcd Cheeks are only oxygen in anoth. cr shape, liirls anxious lo wear a pair will find them where the roses do out of dooi. fKr The man who was 'moved to ienr,' complains of tho dampness ofthe premises, and wishes to move back again. (UT Sir C. Napier said. "I asked a dirty fellow black as a sweep, if acoal-pit could be descended without spoiling my clolhi-s " -Lor bless you, I goes down ten times a day, aud uever minds my clothes!' was his answer. (XT An exchange paper says the most dignified, glorious, and lovely work of nature is woman the nest man and thirdly the Berkshire pig. fr ' Paddy says a joker, - why don't yon get your ears cmnped tiny are entirely too long for a man ? " . "And jours," replied Pat, "oujrht to be lengthened they are too short fur an .," OCT The pirls use powder on their fnoe m men do in the taiukcl puu lo make them go uu. 0P Wh doe mortification fti ? " When you pop the question, and are aiiwr-ed no." f5" Senator Johnson, nl Tenneusr, Myt in his last speech that he has not p"t m-tny slaves ; that he h got a few : and thai n' mailt them by hie aw a iouustry. uivi7)i Journal. . , ' -. w '